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Article: Singapore Inventors Develop Heat Spreader
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- February 20, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- Kwon Shim Il, Sheila Marie L. Alvarez and Virgil Cotoco Ararao, all from Singapore, have developed a heat spreader.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device having a substrate carrier is provided. A semiconductor connected to the substrate carrier. A heat spreader having upper and lower surfaces and legs recessed below the lower surface is connected to the substrate carrier. The Z-dimension between the heat spreader and the substrate carrier is maintained over substantially the entire area of the substrate carrier."
The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,327,025 on Feb. 5.
The patent has been assigned to St Assembly Test ...